To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
An error; a blunder.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.